ColdFusion® MX: From Static to Dynamic in 10 Steps By Barry Moore
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Sooner or later, you are going to want to secure all (or a portion) of one of your web sites. In the past, developers wrote their own security routines. These routines varied from developer to developer but usually involved similar (if not the same) elements and techniques. With the release of ColdFusion MX, Macromedia has formalized these ad-hoc procedures with the inclusion of several new security-related tags and functions.
In this step, we are going to look at various security concepts and how we can apply them using the new ColdFusion MX security framework. There are many different types of security; in this step, we will be concentrating on user security and how to restrict access to certain pages and functions throughout our web site based on a user's identity.
